Jack Hudson (singer from Derbyshire)

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 03 May 04 - 08:57 PM

Terrific news, can I book a floor spot. I'll be there anyway!

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: GUEST,Sam
Date: 03 May 04 - 05:17 PM

Hi
Jack is appearing at the Brewtown Folk Club, Star & Garter, Grange St.
Burton-on Trent on Friday 28 May 2004.
Spread the word!

Cheers

Sam

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 11:05 PM

Amazing! a dj who actually played a track by the sublimely talented Jack Hudson.
Well done tonight Iain Anderson of BBC Radio Scotland. Would that we had more of Iain's discernment and good taste ! A great show channel 866 on the sky box.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: GUEST,Sooz (at work)
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 10:55 AM

Less of the old!

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 10:35 AM

You old flatterer! I'm flattered!
:0)

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: GUEST,Sooz(at work)
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 07:53 AM

Strollin' Johnny's version of Driftwood and Nails is excellent too!

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: GUEST,SAM &MALCOLM
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 04:42 AM

We have loved Jack's music for years. Went to see him in Sandbach 2 days ago. His songs are just so sensitive to experiences we have all had and his voice so strong. Have too many favourites to name but Driftwood and Nails and If I could only fly never fail to move and Saying Goodbye brings tears.

He doesn't perform very often now so we have to travel quite a way to see him. Most memorable was when we went to Cheltenham and he was the support for DeCameron. We have ben trying to persuade him to record some of his songs just as he sings them. Agree with you about the festivals. Would love to see him being given a chance. What a talent!

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 04:37 AM

I would strongly recommend anyone who lives within a drivable distance of Loughborough to get down to the The Doghouse and get an earful of Jack. He's one of Britain's best-kept secrets - a great performer and a truly nice guy.
Johnny :0)

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: GUEST,Howard Coleman
Date: 23 Apr 04 - 03:59 PM

Jack Hudson will be playing at The Doghouse in Loughborough on Thursday May 20th 2004. The venue is great and the sound will be spot on. How to find it: The Doghouse is down the left hand side of The Greyhound which is on Nottingham Road. Follow any signs for Nottingham in the town and you are bound to go past it. It is on the right hand side of Nottingham Road on the way out of town. If you pass the railway station you have gone too far. There is a small car park and a few side streets nearby to park in. Hope that helps. [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 12 Apr 04 - 06:02 PM

I've heard Jack play that song. As you say brilliant. From Derbyshire though I'm sure he has played in Merseyside and most other places.

Thanks for replying

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 11 Apr 04 - 10:11 AM

WLD - will you PM me with details of Jack's Loughborough gig please? Don't get to see him too often nowadays.
Johnny :0)

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 11 Apr 04 - 06:32 AM

Jack recorded a new album last year. Some absolutely stunning songs that were published by an American publisher almost straightaway - but remain on that publishers shelf. he also had a song in the country airplay charts about two years ago - a comedy song Buster the Line dancing Dawg.

Creatively he is still very much on the ball and you can see him perform, at the Loughborough Acoustic club on May 20th. You won't be disappointed.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 11 Apr 04 - 04:46 AM

I had a lot of time for Jack way back when, but I heard him on the radio a few years ago and was disappointed. I felt he was - material-wise - stuck in the past.But maybe he had asked to do some of the more obvious things.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 11 Apr 04 - 04:30 AM

I suppose the thing that did it for me was when Roger Brooks died last year. Suddenly it hit me that these people aren't going to be around for ever .. You think somehow their turn will come - but it never does.

Every night and all day the corporate crap oozes out of the tv and radio. surely nowadays when the technology is so comparatively cheap we should have our own tv channels and record companies and radio stations. And I don't mean something like that bloody awful folk roots musics for zulu satirists and Armenian storytellers. I mean the genuinely dispossessed - English folksingers , without major record company interest.

Jack Hudson is one of those artists whose voice is so great it creates a frisson of pleasure from the first note, and where is he on the festival cast lists. Cambridge with all its creative opportunities would be too much to ask - the stage is always too full of clapped out 70's rock and rollers. However what about Stainsby just down the road from where he lives, or half a hundred other folk and acoustic festivals in the midlands.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 11 Apr 04 - 03:39 AM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 10 Apr 04 - 03:38 PM

And he was recently in Peter Kaye's 'Phoenix Nights'. Played the detective in the spoof 'Crimewatch' scene.
Johnny :0)

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Apr 04 - 03:32 PM

Hmmm...wonder if he's any relation? We're a very musical family.:-)

katneehudson

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 10 Apr 04 - 03:24 PM

Jack is indeed a Derbyshire lad, lives in a place called Kilburn. He still records and does gigs but nowhere near enough. Still the same 'Velvet Gravel' voice and classy guitar-playing. A very nice, self effacing, and HUGELY talented guy. He was a folk-icon in the late-60's & early-70's, played just about everywhere that mattered and made radio appearances, he ranked alongside the best of British artists.

Way back he was a great afficionado of Gordon Lightfoot, Paxton, Kristofferson, Jackson Brown et al. Nowadays he mostly performs self-written material which is a fusion of folk, blues and country, and very good, but if you ask him nicely he'll stick a golden oldie in such as 'Early Mornin' Rain' or 'Me & Bobby McGhee' for old times sake.

I'm very proud to say that he kindly gave me one of his songs, 'Driftwood and Nails', which I perform as often as possible.

If you're a club organiser, BOOK THE GUY! He's still a great performer. His website is:

http://www.jackhudson.co.uk

(Tried to make a Blue Clicky but it didn't work - sorry!)

Johnny :0)

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: GUEST,T.N.C.
Date: 10 Apr 04 - 02:49 PM

I believe Jack is from derbyshire. Wh we last booked him for our club he was just as good as when we used to book him getting on for forty years ago

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: Sooz
Date: 10 Apr 04 - 01:16 PM

He was guest at our club about 18 months ago and was excellent.

Subject: RE: Jack Hudson
From: Flash Company
Date: 10 Apr 04 - 10:23 AM

Is this the Jack Hudson from Merseyside who I recall singing 'Did you see John Hurt' with brilliant guitar, it seems like an awful long time ago!

FC

Subject: Jack Hudson
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 09 Apr 04 - 09:49 PM

JACK HUDSON HaS as great a voice for country music and Americana as Pavarotti has for opera -plus he's a terrific acoustic guitarist. Any suggestions how we can tell the world about him